Serbian Art and Visual Culture of XX Century (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for this course but the attendance to lectures and seminars is mandatory.

Course objectives: The goal of the course is to acquire students with proficiency in interpreting theories, language and practice conditioned by the influence of modern art in Serbian and nearby surroundings.

Course description: The course is organized so that through the active dialogue students are given an opportunity to examine the phenomena of modern arts in Serbia and surrounding using problem selective opus analysis and sections of the opus of certain authors, specific aspects isolated from one or more movements, that belong to either a domain of formal-linguistic beliefs, or the domain of program-theoretical, ideological, or political beliefs. Along with theoretical insights, the course also examines concrete examples from art practice that are of importance for issues concerning central subject matters. The course is not designed as the interpretation of genesis of modern Serbian art but as the examination and assessment of its major ideas and formal-linguistic contents, as well as the adequate evaluation of regional characteristics and differences.

Learning Outcomes: The course is oriented towards applying the acquired capabilities for analyzing and reading the picture, as well as towards evaluating and interpreting stylistic languages and ideological contents of phenomena of modern arts, and identifying and categorizing their regional characteristics and differences.

Literature/Reading:

• 1. Lazar Trifunović, Srpsko slikarstvo 1900-1950, Beograd 1973. Drugo nepromenjeno izdanje: Srpska književna zadruga, Beograd 2014.
• 2. Miodrag.B.Protić, Srpsko slikarstvo XX veka, I-II, Nolit, Beograd, 1970.
• 3a. M. Todić, Nemoguće, umetnost nadrealizma, Muzej primenjene umetnosti, Beograd 2002.
• 4a. I.Subotić, V. Golubović, Zenit 1921-1926,Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Beograd 2008.
• 5a. J.Jovanov, Demistifikacija apokrifa (Dadaizam na jugoslovenskim prostorima 1920/1922), Apostrof, Novi Sad 1999.
• 3. Lidija Merenik, Umetnost i vlast: srpsko slikarstvo 1945–1968, Filozofski fakultet Beograd i Fond Vujičić kolekcija, Beograd 2010.
• 2a. M.B.Protić, Treća decenija - konstruktivno slikarstvo, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd 1967.
• 4. Simona Čupić, Teme i ideje: srpska umetnost 1900-1941, Galerija Matice srpske, Novi Sad 2008.
• 1a. M.B.Protić, Nadrealizam i socijalna umetnost 1929-1950, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, 1969.